Lisa's 'Press Play' Arrives, Six Tracks Led by 'Tarantino' After a VMA Win

Lisa of BLACKPINK is back with Press Play, a six-track record that dropped at midnight Friday (Oct. 23) and is her first solo EP. As Yonhap reports, it is also her first release of any kind in one year and eight months.

The EP follows Alter Ego, her debut full-length album, which came out in February 2025. The new set is tighter by design: six songs, with "Tarantino" serving as the lead track.

The remaining tracklist runs "Sawadika," "V12," "Cobra," "Cut U Off" and "Sweat," a run of titles that reads as much like a garage inventory as a setlist.

"Sawadika" arrived ahead of the EP in September and did more than warm up the room. Shortly after its release, it debuted at No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, which Yonhap counts as Lisa's highest-charting song to date.

The timing also follows a career moment in Los Angeles. At the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards last month, Lisa won Best Pop, one of the show's major categories, for "Dream," a track from Alter Ego.

That win made her the first Asian solo artist to take the prize. Now the trophy for her last album and the chart record set by her newest single both lead into Press Play, which is out now.